#circles

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage #marriage

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#create #even #people #realize #soothing

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#baseball #because #circles #could #guys

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. ↗

— David Amram

#circles #open #those #traveled #wide

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. ↗

— Judith Light

#circles #closets #exactly #fear #gay

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#condition #cured #deemed #depression #often

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. ↗

— Beverly Jones

#attained #benefit #circles #dog #elusive

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. ↗

— Henry Sweet

#dialect #educated #london #spoken

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#either #going #i #image #like